Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSINIn the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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